Your OGHS Dollars at Work

2011 Disaster & Refugee Funding Report

One Great Hour of Sharing funds
enable the United Church of Christ to respond quickly to disasters and other urgent
and unexpected needs as they arise.In
addition to the OGHS offering funds the UCC also receives designated gifts for
specific disasters and crisis situations that further enhance our capacity to
respond. Below is a brief report of grants made from OGHS dollars and
designated disaster and refugee response accounts in 2011.

Africa:($207,000)

$10,000 Ivory Coast: assistance to refugees

$3,000 Madagascar: cyclone Bingiza

$5,000 Angola: flood relief

$5,000 Liberia: assistance to Ivorian refugees

$5,000 Malawi: flood relief

$10,000 Southern Sudan: emergency preparedness training

$20,000 Sudan /Darfur: assistance to
displaced

$1,000 DR Congo: conflict and displacement

$40,000 Kenya: drought & famine relief

$100,000 East Africa: drought & famine relief

$5,000 Somalia: drought & famine relief

$30,000 Ethiopia: drought & famine relief

East Asia and the Pacific:($306,062)

$5,000 Australia: flood relief

$2,500 Philippines: fire damage

$10,000 North Korea: hunger relief

$12,500 Philippines: typhoons Sendong & Pedring

$276,062 Japan: earthquake / tsunami relief

Latin America and the Caribbean:($957,405)

$2,000 Mexico: assistance to pastor’s families

$2,500 Dominican Republic: hurricane Irene damage

$2,500 Haiti: hurricane Irene damage

$2,500 Columbia: assistance to clergy families

$13,000 Brazil: landslide recovery

$10,000 Columbia: flood relief

$924,905 Haiti: earthquake response

Middle East and Europe:($61,240)

$10,000 Egypt: emergency assistance/ political uprising

$16,240 Iraq: medical assistance for refugees

$5,000 Turkey: earthquake relief

$15,000 Syria: emergency relief / political unrest

$5,000 Libya: assistance to displaced

$10,000 Gaza &
West Bank: humanitarian assistance /
capacity building

Southern Asia:($190,000)

$17,500 Sri Lanka: Batticaloa flood relief

$12,500 New Zealand: earthquake relief

$25,000 India: Orissa flooding

$15,000 Thailand: flood relief

$95,000 Pakistan: flood relief

$5,000 India: earthquake relief

$5,000 Pakistan: Dengue epidemic

$5,000 India: landslides

$10,000 Cambodia: flooding and landslides

United States:($1,177,504)

$8,000 Alabama: tornado recovery

$1,500 California: refugee resettlement assistance

$650 Colorado: refugee resettlement assistance

$2,000 Connecticut: flood relief

$2,000 Connecticut: hurricane Irene recovery

$2,000 Connecticut: fire damage

$950 Connecticut: refugee resettlement assistance

$10,000 Florida: disaster response coordinator support

$1,310 Georgia: refugee resettlement assistance

$21,033 Gulf Coast: BP oil spill response

$2,000 Illinois: flood relief

$1,000 Iowa: storm damage

$5,000 Massachusetts: flood relief

$750 Minnesota: refugee resettlement assistance

$750 New
England: refugee resettlement
assistance

$4,000 New
Hampshire: hurricane Irene recovery

$2,000 New Mexico: wildfires

$903,671 New Orleans: Gulf coast hurricane (Katrina) response

$4,000 New York: hurricane Irene flooding

$4,500 New York: world trade center disaster support

$500 New
York: refugee resettlement
assistance

$2,000 North
Caroline: tornado relief

$8,000 North
Carolina: hurricane Irene recovery

$1,000 North
Dakota: flood relief

$1,000 Ohio: flood relief

$11,000 Pennsylvania: flood relief

$2,000 Pennsylvania: storm damage

$3,000 South
Dakota: winter heating assistance

$500 Tennessee: flood relief

$4,000 Texas: wildfire relief

$79,906 U.S.: 2011 Spring Storms

$3,000 U.S.: Missouri river system flooding

$10,000 U.S. & Puerto Rico: hurricane Irene recovery

$41,709 U.S.: safety equipment purchase for hurricane Irene
recovery

$30,000 Vermont: hurricane Irene recovery

$2,000 Vermont: flood relief

$775 Virginia: refugee resettlement assistance

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